Landmark Essays on Rhetoric and Literature: Volume 16, Volume 16Craig Kallendorf Routledge, 2017 M10 3 - 267 pages The studies of rhetoric and literature have been closely connected on the theoretical level ever since antiquity, and many great works of literature were written by men and women who were well versed in rhetoric. It is therefore well worth investigating exactly what these writers knew about rhetoric and how the practice of literary criticism has been enriched through rhetorical knowledge. |
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... senses on composition whose actual control was quite different . The unity of the Ancient Mariner , for instance , has been interpreted as the logical control of the proposition " He prayeth best who loveth best , " though surely that ...
... sense of tradition , as well as his austerity of thought and expression , seemed appropriate to tragedy and to the ancient heroic ethics - nothing contrived or glib or low . 5. Even Odysseus he introduced as shrewd and crafty in the way ...
... sense of the tradition of Hellenism . D. Plutarch's How Youth Should Read Poetry26 Literary criticism has often taken direction from philosophy . In ancient criticism such a slant was habitual . Most ancient critics show definite ...
... sense not to authors whose creative bent is distinctively dramatic or narrative , but to the describers and expatiators , not to Vergil , but to Ovid . For this narrow conception of poetic truth Plutarch's recurring terms32 are not ...
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Contents
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Ernst Robert Curtius Poetry and Rhetoric | 41 |
Orators | 63 |
O B Hardison Jr Rhetoric Poetics and the Theory of Praise | 79 |
Craig Kallendorf King Lear and the Figures of Speech | 101 |
Lipsius Montaigne Bacon | 119 |
Thomas O Sloane The Disintegration of Humanist Rhetoric | 147 |
Charles A Beaumont Swifts Rhetoric in A Modest Proposal | 167 |
Glen McClish Henry Fielding the Novel and Classical | 189 |
Brian Vickers Rhetoric and the Modern Novel | 211 |
Kenneth Burke The Range of Rhetoric | 225 |
Bibliography | 243 |
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